18.599, Confs: Cognitive Science,Computational Ling,Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: 21-Feb-2007
From: Shravan Vasishth < vasishth at acm.org >
Subject: Fall School in Computational Linguistics 

	
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:54:57
From: Shravan Vasishth < vasishth at acm.org >
Subject:  Fall School in Computational Linguistics 
 

Fall School in Computational Linguistics 

Date: 03-Sep-2007 - 14-Sep-2007 
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact: Shravan Vasishth 
Contact Email: vasishth at acm.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fallschool/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Computational Linguistics Fall School was established by the Deutsche
Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistics Association,
www.dgfs.de) as a biennial event for students who wish to widen their knowledge
of techniques and methods used in natural language processing.

The next Fall School will take place 3-14 September, 2007, in Potsdam, at the
Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany. 

Early registration deadline is June 30, 2007. Registration fees before June 30,
2007 are 125€ (student) and 175€ (non-student). Registration after June 30, 2007
, is 200€ and 250€ respectively. There are only 25 seats available due to
computer pool constraints, so apply as early as possible.

The Fall School website is: www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/fallschool/.

Funding: some fee waivers and other funding are available to students. If you
would like to apply for financial assistance, please send a brief CV and a brief
(one page) statement of interest to Shravan Vasishth at vasishth at acm.org. If you
have already applied for funding, there is no need to do so again.

For previous fall school courses see the website for the CL section of the
German Linguistic Association: www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/dgfs.pl/coli 

Courses to be offered:

1. Amit Dubey. Statistical Parsing: from theory to engineering, and engineering
to cognitive modeling
2. Stefan Evert and Marco Baroni. Statistical programming in R for computational
linguists
3. Rainer Osswald. Ontologies and Lexical Semantic Resources
4. Manfred Stede and Stefanie Dipper. Text Structure and Text Understanding

The courses, which will be taught in English, consist of ten 90-minutes sessions
and are credited with 4 ECTS credit points each by the Institute for
Linguistics, University of Potsdam.





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